Greetings all,
Pascal's wager for theism/belief in God is:
Belief in God is "safer". The payoff from belief in God, B, is "safer" because if B and ~G, the loss is only trivially finite [this is questionable/subjective, imo], while the upside from belief in God and God existing [B and G] is "infinite". The upside from ~B is also only trivially finite, while the downside is unlimited.
AFAIK, within Hindu philosophy, no such wager was posed by theists to non-theists.
I have my own thoughts on why this wager was never considered. But, what are your thoughts?
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